Lotus
The lotus flower (Sanskrit: Padma; Tibetan: པད་མེ, Wylie: pad me), representing "primordial purity" (Tibetan: ཀ་དག, Wylie: ka dag) of body, speech, and mind, floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire; represents the full blossoming of wholesome deeds in blissful liberation.
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Famous quotes containing the word lotus:
“I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:
Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,
For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide
Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)